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Cold-Inducible RNA Binding Protein Promotes Breast Cancer Cell Malignancy by Regulating Downloaded from rnajournal.cshlp.org on September 28, 2021 - Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Cold-inducible RNA binding protein promotes breast cancer cell malignancy by regulating Cystatin C levels Alberto Indacochea1,2, Santiago Guerrero1, 5*, Macarena Ureña2, Ferrán Araujo2, Olga Coll1, Matilde E. LLeonart2,3* and Fátima Gebauer1,4* (1) Gene Regulation, Stem Cells and Cancer Programme, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, 08003 Barcelona, Spain (2) Biomedical Research in Cancer Stem Cells, Vall d´Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Passeig Vall d´Hebron 119-129, 08035 Barcelona, Spain (3) Spanish Biomedical Research Network Centre in Oncology, CIBERONC, Spain (4) Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), 08003 Barcelona, Spain (5) Current address: Centro de Investigación Genética y Genómica, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud Eugenio Espejo, Universidad UTE, Av. Mariscal Sucre and Mariana de Jesús, 170129 Quito, Ecuador Running title: CIRBP targets in breast cancer Keywords: CIRBP, CST3, breast cancer (*) Co-corresponding: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 1 Downloaded from rnajournal.cshlp.org on September 28, 2021 - Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Abstract Cold-inducible RNA binding protein (CIRBP) is a stress-responsive protein that promotes cancer development and inflammation. Critical to most CIRBP functions is its capacity to bind and post-transcriptionally modulate mRNA. However, a transcriptome-wide analysis of CIRBP mRNA targets in cancer has not yet been performed. Here, we use an ex vivo breast cancer model to identify CIRBP targets and mechanisms. We find that CIRBP transcript levels correlate with breast cancer subtype and are an indicator of luminal A/B prognosis. Accordingly, over-expression of CIRBP in non-tumoral MCF-10A cells promotes cell growth and clonogenicity, while depletion of CIRBP from luminal A MCF-7 cells has opposite effects. We use RNA immunoprecipitation followed by high-throughput sequencing (RIP-Seq) to identify a set of 204 high confident CIRBP targets in MCF-7 cells. About 10% of these showed complementary changes after CIRBP manipulation in MCF-10 and MCF-7 cells, and were highly interconnected with known breast cancer genes. To test the potential of CIRBP- mediated regulation of these targets in breast cancer development, we focused on Cystatin C (CST3), one of the most highly interconnected genes and a protein that displays tumor suppressive capacities. CST3 depletion restored the effects of CIRBP depletion in MCF-7 cells, indicating that CIRBP functions, at least in part, by downregulating CST3 levels. Our data provide a resource of CIRBP targets in breast cancer, and identify CST3 as a novel downstream mediator of CIRBP function. 2 Downloaded from rnajournal.cshlp.org on September 28, 2021 - Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press INTRODUCTION RNA binding proteins orchestrate post-transcriptional control of gene expression and are emerging as important modulators of cancer progression (Moore et al., 2018; Pereira et al., 2017; Wurth and Gebauer, 2015; García-Cárdenas et al., 2019). Cold-inducible RNA binding protein (CIRBP, also termed CIRP and hnRNP A18) is a stress-responsive protein that partially relocates from the nucleus to the cytoplasm under diverse types of stress such as mild hypothermia, UV-irradiation, endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress or hypoxia (Lujan et al., 2018). In the cytoplasm, CIRBP binds to the coding sequence and 3’ UTRs of target transcripts and promotes or stabilizes mRNA levels. For example, CIRBP promotes telomere maintenance by increasing the levels of TERT mRNA (Zhang et al., 2016), and enhances the tumorigenic properties of cancer cells by promoting the stability of HIF1α and cyclin E mRNAs (Chang et al., 2016; Guo et al., 2010). However, other modes of CIRBP-mediated regulation have also been reported. For instance, CIRBP stimulates global protein synthesis by promoting 4E-BP1 phosphorylation (Chang et al., 2016; Artero-Castro et al., 2009), and has been proposed to stimulate mRNA-specific translation (Chang et al., 2016; Yang et al., 2006), although direct evidence for the latter is still missing. In addition, CIRBP regulates circadian gene expression by promoting alternative polyadenylation (APA) of target transcripts (Morf et al., 2012; Liu et al., 2013). Under UV-irradiation, CIRBP is transiently recruited to sites of DNA damage, where it promotes repair by modulating the association of DNA repair complexes (MRN and ATM kinase) to DNA damage sites (Chen et al., 2018). CIRBP also stimulates the ERK pathway, an event important for bypass of replicative senescence and protection from apoptosis (Artero-Castro et al., 2009; Sakurai et al., 2006). Intriguingly, CIRBP can augment inflammation and induce pyroptosis by a mechanism presumably unrelated to its RNA-binding capacity. Upon hemorrhagic shock and sepsis, 3 Downloaded from rnajournal.cshlp.org on September 28, 2021 - Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press CIRBP is released into the circulation where it binds to the TLR4-MD2 receptor of macrophages, leading to release of TNFα, inflammation and tissue injury (Qiang et al., 2013). Most of the functions mentioned above are consistent with a pro-oncogenic role of CIRBP. Accordingly, although CIRBP null mice display no obvious phenotype under normal laboratory conditions, they show attenuated hepatocarcinogenesis upon thioacetamide treatment and are less susceptible to dextran sodium sulfate-induced intestinal inflammation and tumorigenesis (Sakurai et al., 2006; Sakurai et al., 2014; Sakurai et al., 2015; Masuda et al., 2012). Despite the relevance of CIRBP in tumor progression, no transcriptome-wide attempts have been done to identify CIRBP targets in a cancerous context. Here we use RNA immunoprecipitation followed by high-throughput sequencing (RIP-Seq) to identify CIRBP targets. We focus on breast cancer because i) previous in vitro evidence indicated that CIRBP could modulate the tumoral properties of MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells (Chang et al., 2016), ii) immunohistochemistry (IHC) analysis pointed to the presence of CIRBP in the cytoplasm of cells from breast cancer patients (Artero-Castro et al., 2009), and iii) the large number of samples present in databases compared to other tumor types allows for higher statistical relevance. We first validated breast cancer as a suitable model to study CIRBP- mediated regulation. Indeed, analysis of patient samples indicated that CIRBP mRNA levels correlate with breast tumor subtype and are an indicator of prognosis for the luminal A/B subtype. Depletion of CIRBP from luminal A MCF-7 breast ductal carcinoma cells resulted in decreased proliferation and clonogenicity while, conversely, CIRBP over-expression in non- tumoral breast MCF-10A cells increased these traits. RIP-Seq from MCF-7 cells identified 204 high-confident targets, 80% of them novel. To identify functionally relevant targets, we used the MCF-7/MCF-10A cell pair and compared transcriptome changes after CIRBP depletion or 4 Downloaded from rnajournal.cshlp.org on September 28, 2021 - Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press over-expression, respectively. Of the 204 targets, 22 showed consistent changes in both cell lines. Network analysis indicated that 13 of these targets were highly interconnected with known breast cancer genes. We provide proof-of-principle analysis showing that one of these novel targets, Cystatin C (CST3) is a functionally-relevant CIRBP target in breast cancer, as depletion of CST3 abrogates the deleterious effects of CIRBP depletion. These data indicate that CST3 is a novel mediator of CIRBP function in breast cancer. RESULTS CIRBP is upregulated in luminal breast cancer and its expression correlates with poor clinical outcome To assess the relevance of CIRBP in cancer, we first interrogated CIRBP expression in patient databases using cBioPortal (https://www.cbioportal.org/) (Cerami et al., 2012; Gao et al., 2013). TCGA database analysis indicated that CIRBP is altered in a variety of human tumors, the most frequent event consisting of mRNA upregulation (Figure 1A). We next focused on breast cancer, which had the highest absolute number of CIRBP alterations. Breast cancer is classified in four main subtypes based on the expression of molecular markers, namely estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR) and human epithelial growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) (Harbeck et al., 2019). In increasing order of aggressiveness, tumors are low proliferative ER+PR+HER2- (luminal A), high proliferative ER+PR+HER2- (luminal B), HER2+ (luminal B and non-luminal) or ER-PR-HER2- (triple negative). Analysis of CIRBP expression along these subtypes revealed a higher transcript expression in less aggressive hormone- positive (ER+PR+) breast cancer samples present in TCGA and METABRIC databases (Figure 1B). Although less aggressive, hormone-positive breast cancer represents the most 5 Downloaded from rnajournal.cshlp.org on September 28, 2021 - Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press abundant class (60-70%), and can metastasize leading to death. To test whether CIRBP levels can function as a prognosis factor, we explored CIRBP transcript prevalence in ER+PR+ patients with primary infiltrating ductal carcinoma and negative lymph node status. The results indicated that CIRBP upregulation correlates with poor disease-free survival (Figure 1C). In order to select an appropriate cell system
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